1994 Taylor’s Vintage Port

450.00

JAMES SUCKLING ON THE EXTRAORDINARY 1994 VINTAGE:

100 Points Wine Spectator, #1 Wine Spectator Top 100

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The 1994 vintage is the greatest for Port since the legendary 1945… Never have I tasted such great young Ports. Every wine lover or collector who enjoys the sweet, rich flavors of this fabulous fortified wine should have some ’94 vintage Port in his or her cellar. Many of the 1994s rate with the all-time greats in vintage Port. In particular, the Fonseca, Taylor Fladgate and Quinta do Noval Nacional are among the greatest young Ports ever produced–each scored 100 points in my blind tasting.

You can’t expect more from a young, stout, vintage Port. Each is the pinnacle of quality in its own style. The Fonseca is a blockbuster, overflowing with ripe, exotic fruit and giant-but-velvety tannins. The Taylor, by comparison, is compact, with a vibrant, sexy, fruit character and ultrafine tannins.

… In mid-January, I organized a blind tasting, held in London, of nearly three dozen ’94 vintage Ports. Most of the samples came directly from the shippers’ cellars in Portugal. I tasted the wines over three days, trying nearly all of them two or three times each during this period. Not only did I review the young Ports straight out of the bottle, I evaluated them a day after they had been opened to assess their evolutions. Moreover, I compared these January tasting notes to evaluations I had made of the same wines last fall and spring.

My findings confirmed what I wrote for the June 15, 1996, issue of Wine Spectator (“Monumental 1994 Vintage Port”). Never has there been such an opportunity to buy so many tremendous vintage Ports.

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